by Bill Treasurer | Mar 19, 2025 | Courageous Leadership, Leadership Development, Personal Growth
How can you tell when a leader is becoming tainted by hubris and self-centered behavior? We like the simple explanation offered by Patrick Decker, the retired CEO of Xylem, a multibillion-dollar water solutions company. As he was rising through the corporate ranks,...
by GLAdmin22 | Feb 19, 2025 | Courageous Leadership, Leadership Development, Personal Growth
There’s something you need to hear if you’re to be entrusted with leading others. It’s something that you’ve probably not read before, but something you deserve to know. Keep this in the forefront of your mind as you meet the challenges, and reap the rewards, of...
by Bill Treasurer | Feb 12, 2025 | Courageous Coaching, Courageous Leadership, Leadership Development, Personal Growth
A lot has been written about the natural tendency to fear the unknown. In my opinion, the first (and perhaps best) description of this phenomenon comes from the 4000-year-old masterpiece of Plato. In The Republic, Socrates (an early Right Risk-taker) describes fear as...
by Bill Treasurer | Dec 18, 2024 | Courageous Leadership, Leadership Development, Personal Growth
There’s a certain inevitability to leadership – no matter how high you climb. The view from the top is exhilarating at first—the accolades, the accomplishments, the recognition—but what happens when the climb slows, when the thrill of the ascent gives way to...
by Bill Treasurer | Nov 20, 2024 | Courageous Coaching, Courageous Leadership, Leadership Development, Personal Growth
Leadership can feel like walking a tightrope—one where balance is everything. Too much confidence, and you risk alienating those you lead. Too little, and you risk losing their respect. The setbacks leaders face are often not random but rather the natural result of...
by Bill Treasurer | Nov 13, 2024 | Courageous Leadership
I’m an ex-high diver. Every day for seven years I would courageously climb to the top of a hundred-foot high-dive ladder (the equivalent of a ten-story building) and stand atop a one-foot-by-one-foot perch. Then, after a quick prayer, I would leap into the air like an...
